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09/03/2026

Q-angle describes structure. It does not tell you how an athlete will move.

Once speed, load, external forces, tissue capacity, and neuromuscular control enter the picture, anatomy becomes one constraint inside a larger system. Training is about helping the athlete perform with the geometry they have.

09/01/2026

A deeper stretch doesn’t always mean a longer muscle.

For biarticular muscles like the hamstrings, both joints matter, and muscle-tendon length isn’t the same thing as fascicle length. More range of motion alone doesn’t tell you what tissue is actually being lengthened.

La Vuelta lists mountain stages on Aug 25, Aug 28, and Aug 30. In a study of 14 competitive youth cyclists at 250 W and ...
08/27/2026

La Vuelta lists mountain stages on Aug 25, Aug 28, and Aug 30. In a study of 14 competitive youth cyclists at 250 W and a 14% slope, standing increased the knee's relative contribution to total mechanical work compared with seated climbing.

Save this for your next climbing review.

Event schedule: La Vuelta 2026 official route. Study: Tang Y et al., International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020. DOI 10.3390/ijerph17082846. Contextual photography: Allan Carvalho, Susanne Jutzeler, Tuvalum, Gato Joseph, and Pavel Danilyuk via Pexels. No event or athlete endorsement implied.

08/27/2026

NFL receivers hit over 20 mph and stop in three steps. Every braking step absorbs more than three times bodyweight, and the cut everyone claps for is a stop plus a launch. Separation starts in the brakes. Save this for your next speed day.

Armand Duplantis cleared 6.21 m on his first attempt in Lausanne and had no misses through that height. The research sli...
08/26/2026

Armand Duplantis cleared 6.21 m on his first attempt in Lausanne and had no misses through that height. The research slides summarize a separate 25-athlete study from the 2018 World Indoor Championships. Save this before Weltklasse Zurich on August 27.

Sources: World Athletics; Weltklasse Zurich; Hanley et al., Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (2022), DOI 10.3389/fspor.2022.835659.
Photos: Filip Bossuyt (CC BY 2.0) and Frankie Fouganthin (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and tonally edited.

US Open men’s and women’s singles qualifying runs August 24 to 27, 2026. In a simulated choice-reaction task with 10 mal...
08/25/2026

US Open men’s and women’s singles qualifying runs August 24 to 27, 2026. In a simulated choice-reaction task with 10 male collegiate players, split-step trials averaged 764 ± 106 ms and no-split trials averaged 868 ± 63 ms. Save this for your next return-of-serve film review.

Sources: US Open 2026 Tournament Schedule; Uzu R, Shinya M, Oda S. J Sports Sci. 2009;27(12):1233-1240. PMID 19735035.

08/25/2026

Lab studies clock pro punches at 50-60 G's of acceleration, and almost none of it starts in the arm. Rear foot drives, hips fire first, the fist delivers what the ground produced. Save this for rotation work.

Juventus reported a 2.56 m head-ball contact height and a 71 cm elevation for Cristiano Ronaldo's winner against Sampdor...
08/24/2026

Juventus reported a 2.56 m head-ball contact height and a 71 cm elevation for Cristiano Ronaldo's winner against Sampdoria on December 18, 2019. The report omits its measurement method; IFAB sets regulation crossbar height at 2.44 m to the lower edge.

Save this five-slide breakdown for your next film session.

Sources: Juventus, 2019; IFAB Law 1.

Photos: Greger Ravik, Amit Bronstein, and Tsutomu Takasu, CC BY 2.0. Context photography from other matches, cropped and color treated. No endorsement implied.

08/24/2026

At full speed your squat looks clean. Slowed down, the hips drift an inch sideways on every rep, loading one leg harder and stealing depth from the other side. In 3D that drift is a number. Save this and film yourself front-on this week.

Join us live on August 27th at 3 PM PT as Demotu Co-founder & CEO Evan Ledahl sits down with JT Tamsett for a Fitness Bu...
08/22/2026

Join us live on August 27th at 3 PM PT as Demotu Co-founder & CEO Evan Ledahl sits down with JT Tamsett for a Fitness Business Podcast webinar on the most important 30 minutes in the client journey: the consultation.

Learn how to turn your consultation into an experience that builds trust, increases conversions, and sets clients up to stay longer.

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